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When a metaphor draws its comparison from two illogical and opposite sources, it becomes what the late Theadore M. Bernstein dubbes a "mixaphor"-- the most frequently quoted example is from that impeccable source, Shakespeare, when his melancholy Dane, Hamlet, ponders whether "it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles."'>When a metaphor draws its comparison from two illogical and opposite sources, it becomes what the late Theadore M. Bernstein dubbes a "mixaphor"-- the most frequently quoted example is from that impeccable source, Shakespeare, when his melancholy Dane, Hamlet, ponders whether "it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles."
December 24, 2009